Many thanks to long time skipper and soon to be author Melanie Bowden for sending this quote from the September 2006 issue of Redbook Magazine....It was in an article on what your kids can teach you about happiness...

"When my daughter, Deanna, was 5, she skipped everywhere. It didn't matter what the occasion-holidays, parties, going to the store-she skipped. When I asked her why, she told me skipping made her happy. "You can't be mad and skipping, Mom," she said. And it's true! So we skip-I skip, she skips, even my husband skips." - Daphne Bahamonde, 35, Rochester, NY

Melanie's new book "Why Didn't Anyone Tell Me? True Stories of New Motherhood" will be out next month!